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. >>> the comedian who threw a foam pie at rupert murdoch didn't lose his sense of humor after pleading guilty to assault. >> just like to say that this has been the most humble day of my life. >> that was jonathan may believes borrowing a phrase now used by murdoch when he spoke to -- he made headlines after he hurled a pie filled with shaving cream during a meeting with parliament. >>> this weekend, the bay area will experience another loss of a dying breed. roller skating rinks. after more than three decades, the owners of a rink are hanging up their skates. the closure has little to do with lack of money. >> you know, my wife reminded me last time that we were here was 20 years ago. i still got it. so we talked to the owners and after a really long rush, they wanted to leave while they are still on top. the only thing harder than succeeding in the roller rink business is leaving it. >> can you say chris with 100% certainty that this is something you're not going to regret? >> no. >> chris and tray have practically worked seven days a week, 10 to 12 hours a day for much of the last f
. >>> the comedian who threw a foam pie at rupert murdoch didn't lose his sense of humor after pleading guilty to assault. >> just like to say that this has been the most humble day of my life. >> that was jonathan may believes borrowing a phrase now used by murdoch when he spoke to -- he made headlines after he hurled a pie filled with shaving cream during a meeting with parliament. >>> this weekend, the bay area will experience another loss of a dying breed....
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what i found fascinating is rupert murdoch spent a lot of his first testimony not being rupert murdoch and being contrite and as the afternoon wore on what you saw was the emergence of very much the 20th century media mogul got more gruff but maybe felt more honest. at one pointthe questioner said rupert murdoch i'm going turn to you since i don't seem to get far with james murdoch and he got more gruff. he steamed to respond in a differt way. james was every bit the picture of a 20th centu corporate polished ceo saying no matter the merit of the question that's a tremendous and terrific question and i appreciate the manner in which it's been asked and his preambles were enormous and the content of the answers were minimal and existing always flattering the questioner. what i liked was the contrast. murdoch was as he said, humbled and i think he was contrite. the measure of the contrition seed to go down toughout the day until we got the pie as some over the internet said that saved news corp. not sure that's right but it was astonishing. >> charlie: and james murdoch to be protective
what i found fascinating is rupert murdoch spent a lot of his first testimony not being rupert murdoch and being contrite and as the afternoon wore on what you saw was the emergence of very much the 20th century media mogul got more gruff but maybe felt more honest. at one pointthe questioner said rupert murdoch i'm going turn to you since i don't seem to get far with james murdoch and he got more gruff. he steamed to respond in a differt way. james was every bit the picture of a 20th centu...
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but i'm saying at the brish politicians felt they needed murdoch and his support and reciproally murdoch needed things from them. that never needed to be stated but everyone understood that that was hanging in the air and that's what this judicial inquiry has to get to the bottom of. >> i think murdoch's control of 37% of the britishress plus b sky b led to this conviction from tony blair to cameron that you had to have murdoch on your side. and, you know, when you're in britain you don't feel murdoch's running the show. i mean, you can read "the guardian," you can read t telegraph, you can read t daily expres you can read the f.t. but i just wonder but blair, i'm sure, would have won the election in 1997 without murdoch. it was the end of the toris just as it was the end of new labor in 2010. murdoch had his finger in the wind and he went with these guys but i don't myself bieve e elections uld have come out any differently withou so i think there was a kind of mythology that hadbuilt up. we have to have murdoch with us. and now it's the oosite. we have torash him. >> rose: john burns,
but i'm saying at the brish politicians felt they needed murdoch and his support and reciproally murdoch needed things from them. that never needed to be stated but everyone understood that that was hanging in the air and that's what this judicial inquiry has to get to the bottom of. >> i think murdoch's control of 37% of the britishress plus b sky b led to this conviction from tony blair to cameron that you had to have murdoch on your side. and, you know, when you're in britain you don't...
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murdoch was the news and continues to be the news. the owner of the news corp, a $32 billion media con gone rat, is in the eye of a whirl storm. the rap is hacking. murdoch's journalists have been hacking into the cell phones apparently of the owners and users of those phones. police reports say there could be as many as 4,000 victims. murdoch's journalists also invaded confidential medical records, one of those victims is the former prime minister of the united kingdom gordon brown. two of his newspapers reveal private medical records of the son of gordon brown and the young boy's history of cystic fibrosis, which his mother and father were treating as a family matter. >> i can't think of any way that medical condition of a child could be put into the public arena legitimately. >> the international uproar over murdoch's newspaper hacking killed a pending murdoch broadcasting deal, namely, to purchase british sky broadcasting a deal valued at $12 billion. the sitting uk prime minister and the british public sidelined the planned merge
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they curry favor with murdoch and he's very powerful specially in the u.k. you can call an election one way or another newspapers and television they've got stories they life because well even though these three legal means to be entertained their audience is the audience is like that to the police might have been involved in bribery but then again they might have gotten tips of information that might have led to a person prosecution so it's a very kind of odd arrangement everybody seemed to have gotten something out of it but nonetheless it was quite you legal i mean how do you look at that i mean is that why it went on for so long if the allegations are true well you just have to well you just have to look at the relationship involving the media and government and law enforcement in london it is a very unusual relationship and the environment in london for the tabloids especially is very aggressive viciously competitive and unfortunately in this case it crossed over into line of illegality so none of this is a real surprise and it's been a long time coming
they curry favor with murdoch and he's very powerful specially in the u.k. you can call an election one way or another newspapers and television they've got stories they life because well even though these three legal means to be entertained their audience is the audience is like that to the police might have been involved in bribery but then again they might have gotten tips of information that might have led to a person prosecution so it's a very kind of odd arrangement everybody seemed to...
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murdoch and his immense media assets are under investigation in what is being called voicemail gate is this scandal all about murdoch and his sleazy business practices or a media that no longer serves the public good. crosstalk media today i'm joined by tony pedersen and dallas he's a professor and bell distinguished chair in journalism at southern methodist university in los angeles we cross that audience russell he's a historian and the author of a renegade history of the united states and in oxford we go to shawn powers he's an assistant professor at georgia state university all right gentlemen this is crosstalk that means you can jump in anytime you want i always go to the person has to go earliest for this program so i'm going to go to you thaddeus here in looking at what's happening to them the murdoch media empire and every hour that passes more revelations are coming out and it looks very very ugly is any of this surprise you and do you think it's going to be this is just the tip of the iceberg because murdoch and his people have a really sleazy reputation now we're getting evi
murdoch and his immense media assets are under investigation in what is being called voicemail gate is this scandal all about murdoch and his sleazy business practices or a media that no longer serves the public good. crosstalk media today i'm joined by tony pedersen and dallas he's a professor and bell distinguished chair in journalism at southern methodist university in los angeles we cross that audience russell he's a historian and the author of a renegade history of the united states and in...
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it is the murdoch -- what we see is the murdoch who believes he is in control. so he believes he's in control. yet to the rest of the world, what is obviously happening in we see him losing control in a way we see him out of control. >> sarah, he also said in that journal interview that news corp has handled this crisis extremely well in every way possible, just some minor mistakes. >> which is ludicrous because you just watched the way they've had to reverse themselves through the course of the week. first of all, they weren't going to appear in front of a committee of mps. then later they would. take these in british papers, ads saying "i'm sorry." can you imagine when rupert murdoch has said i'm sorry. he. >> getting high-level pr advice. david, a short time before break. a national review online says you are treating this as the second coming of watergate and suggests geraldo rivera said you were a weak-kneed, backstabbing, sweaty palm report sgler my palms are relatively dry. people can decide for themselves. it's political, law enforcement, journalistic im
it is the murdoch -- what we see is the murdoch who believes he is in control. so he believes he's in control. yet to the rest of the world, what is obviously happening in we see him losing control in a way we see him out of control. >> sarah, he also said in that journal interview that news corp has handled this crisis extremely well in every way possible, just some minor mistakes. >> which is ludicrous because you just watched the way they've had to reverse themselves through the...
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murdoch sr. had been hit. you can then -- in later pictures if you look close, you can see the foam. more than one person suggested that, you know, this could have been a brick, it could have been, you know, nails, it could have been much more serious. you have to bear in mind if it had been anything like that, it wouldn't have got into the room. we don't know how he got in with some shaving foam. he could have said he was just been home doing the weekly shopping. who knows? it was serious, but not because it could have been a much more vicious attack. it was serious because it was a disgrace. because anybody coming to give evidence in the mother of parliaments has a right to do so with dignity and in courtesy. >> amen to that. and that is -- those disruptions something we see many times in the u.s. congress as well. richard quest thanks for your remarkable reporting today on this remarkable story. thank you. >>> let's dig deeper and continue, joanne litman is a columnist for the daily beast. and i want you to
murdoch sr. had been hit. you can then -- in later pictures if you look close, you can see the foam. more than one person suggested that, you know, this could have been a brick, it could have been, you know, nails, it could have been much more serious. you have to bear in mind if it had been anything like that, it wouldn't have got into the room. we don't know how he got in with some shaving foam. he could have said he was just been home doing the weekly shopping. who knows? it was serious, but...
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murdoch. he made a statement on the seventh of july in which you stated that the paper had made statements that were wrong. qe essentially admitted the parliament had been misled on what we were told. can you tell us to what extent were we misled when we became aware of that? >> mr. chairman, thank you. i would like to say how sorry i am and how sorry we are for particularly the victims of illegal voicemail deceptions and it's a matter of great regret and everyone at the news corporation and these are standards these actions do not live up to the standards that our company aspires to everywhere around the world and it's our determination to put things right, make sure these things don't happen again and to be the company that i know that it has always aspired to be as for my comments mr. chairman which i believe was around the closure of the news of the world newspaper. >> i would like to say. >> stand closure of the world of the newspaper where i stated that the company hadn't been in possess
murdoch. he made a statement on the seventh of july in which you stated that the paper had made statements that were wrong. qe essentially admitted the parliament had been misled on what we were told. can you tell us to what extent were we misled when we became aware of that? >> mr. chairman, thank you. i would like to say how sorry i am and how sorry we are for particularly the victims of illegal voicemail deceptions and it's a matter of great regret and everyone at the news corporation...
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everybody needs murdoch's support. i think that eventually this is going to fade away. >> do you remember the phase willful blindness in connection with enron crimes? >> yes. it's looking the other way. >> do you think -- willful blindness will obtain in the case of prosecuting and perhaps convicting rupert? >> they may try. >> and his son. >> they may try. >> willful blind sentence. >> i don't think rupert has any -- hold it. i don't think rupert, as of now has any kind of criminal liability whatsoever. the people have a problem are below him. >> when you have a hot story, the editor, the people above say, how did you get that? it's diagnose to be very difficult to insulate the people at the top if these allegations prove true. >> let's see if we can >> thank you columbia, challenger, discovery, endeavour, and our ship atlantis. thank you for protecting us and bringing this program to such a fitting end. >> before daylight thursday morning, atlantis, the u.s. space shuttle, returned to earth. this landing brings the c
everybody needs murdoch's support. i think that eventually this is going to fade away. >> do you remember the phase willful blindness in connection with enron crimes? >> yes. it's looking the other way. >> do you think -- willful blindness will obtain in the case of prosecuting and perhaps convicting rupert? >> they may try. >> and his son. >> they may try. >> willful blind sentence. >> i don't think rupert has any -- hold it. i don't think...
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the murdoch clan. and all his professional life, the billionaire patriarch rupert has been asking the questions, not answering them. well, all that changed today, when he and his son and a top lieutenant were called before the british parliament to explain the criminal behavior of journalists at one of their tabloid papers. the murdochs have issued a public apology. but the public uproar continues. here's abc's david wright. >> reporter: he's the godfather of a media syndicate that he runs like a family business. a $40 billion business that probably touches your life every day. are you a gleek? that's'swn fox, owned by news corp. "mr. popper's penguins," distributed by news corp. fox news channel, theirs, as well. so is "the wall street journal," "the new york post" and five of brit tape's most popular newspapers. rupe rupert's net worth is in the $7 billion range. and forbes list of most powerful people, he's number 13, right after the president of russia. today, the aging titan had a taste of humble
the murdoch clan. and all his professional life, the billionaire patriarch rupert has been asking the questions, not answering them. well, all that changed today, when he and his son and a top lieutenant were called before the british parliament to explain the criminal behavior of journalists at one of their tabloid papers. the murdochs have issued a public apology. but the public uproar continues. here's abc's david wright. >> reporter: he's the godfather of a media syndicate that he...
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it could be very costly to people who hold murdoch paper. they might have to entice shareholders back in and that carries financial risks as well. reputational risks on both sides of the atlantic. legal processes in the uk and potential lawmakers getting more interested in the company in the u.s. ramping up the pressure, according to s&p. >> steve sedgewick helping us out for cnbc. thanks so much. now with the deadline to reach a deficit deal now exactly two weeks away, the rhetoric as you've witnessed heating up as lawmakers scramble to try to strike a deal. the house is expected to vote today on what it calls the cut, cap and balance plan. that's the republican-backed legislation that includes a constitutional amendment requiring a balanced budget. it's a measure that the white house has warned that president obama would veto and yesterday press secretary jay carney outlined the obama administration's exact objections. >> what we are witnessing here with this measure is classic washington posturing, kabuki theater. this is a measure that i
it could be very costly to people who hold murdoch paper. they might have to entice shareholders back in and that carries financial risks as well. reputational risks on both sides of the atlantic. legal processes in the uk and potential lawmakers getting more interested in the company in the u.s. ramping up the pressure, according to s&p. >> steve sedgewick helping us out for cnbc. thanks so much. now with the deadline to reach a deficit deal now exactly two weeks away, the rhetoric...
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murdoch. it halted the entire hearing. we are still waiting to hear from rebekah brooks. if you see it he was trying to get a pie in the face of rupert murdoch. if we can get that shot back up again, you can see in niz left hand a tin -- and see if we can get that shot back up. it looks like he had a tin in his left hand a cream pie that he was going to smash in the face of rupert murdoch during these hearings. the man was quickly taken away in handcuffs. you saw the images of him outside he had something all over his face. wendy dang in the pink jumping up. she is a volleyball player. that looks like a spike. she's known to be a fan of volleyball. anyway, you can see the pie right there trying to get in the face of rupert murdoch. the woman in the gray i'm not sure who she is. she was sitting to the left op of wendy dang. michelle is with us now. is this ovenly some type of protesters coming in to disrupt this and create a true embarrassment to rupert murdoch by delivering a pie in the face?
murdoch. it halted the entire hearing. we are still waiting to hear from rebekah brooks. if you see it he was trying to get a pie in the face of rupert murdoch. if we can get that shot back up again, you can see in niz left hand a tin -- and see if we can get that shot back up. it looks like he had a tin in his left hand a cream pie that he was going to smash in the face of rupert murdoch during these hearings. the man was quickly taken away in handcuffs. you saw the images of him outside he...
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could there be a sunday without a murdoch tabloid? unthinkable, surely. >> despite today's announcement, the fallout from the scandal seems to be far from over. scotland yard say they have identified 4000 possible hacking victims. an inquiry will start into possible wrongdoing by police officers. we have the latest on that part of the case. >> this famous newspaper titles may have been confined to history, but the scrutiny of its methods goes on. britain's most senior policeman has officers investigating whether other officers were bribed by journalists. >> a small group of officers may have engaged in these practices. i will determine to do what we should do, and that is proceed to criminal courts. >> a former employee told the court last year as a witness that he knew nothing about payments from the police or to the police. e-mails have been provided the raise serious questions. >> someone from news international is misleading us. he has to answer a perjury charge, and that is very serious. >> tonight, it is reported that he will be
could there be a sunday without a murdoch tabloid? unthinkable, surely. >> despite today's announcement, the fallout from the scandal seems to be far from over. scotland yard say they have identified 4000 possible hacking victims. an inquiry will start into possible wrongdoing by police officers. we have the latest on that part of the case. >> this famous newspaper titles may have been confined to history, but the scrutiny of its methods goes on. britain's most senior policeman has...
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murdoch, withdraw the bid. i do not think it is conceivable in the current circumstances that would command public consent for the bid to go ahead. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> that was ed miliband. the home affairs committee will question officials about reports the police officers took money for providing information that was used by reporters. covers from london begins at 6:30 a.m. eastern on c-span 2. today at the white house, president obama talked about the ongoing debt and deficit negotiations with the national leaders. following the remarks, we will hear from a house painter john boehner. after that, tom donohue on jobs and the economy. president obama said he is continuing to meet with congressional leaders to get a deal on deficit and debt reduction. democrats and republicans have been negotiating to reach -- raise the debt ceiling ahead of the august 2 deadline. the president spoke to reporters prior to monday pose
murdoch, withdraw the bid. i do not think it is conceivable in the current circumstances that would command public consent for the bid to go ahead. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2011] >> that was ed miliband. the home affairs committee will question officials about reports the police officers took money for providing information that was used by reporters. covers from london begins at 6:30 a.m. eastern on c-span...
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that's what's going on with james murdoch. as a ceo of this division, it's his job to know and he's had several years, as john points out, to know. the fact that he didn't suggests he's either dumb or he's incompetent. >> vicky ward, you know the murdoch family. what toll is this taking on rupert? >> i think it's taking an enormous toll. it would be very surprising if it wasn't, howie. i would like to address a few things that have come out. unless you actually have worked for the murdochs, you don't know. so to take john's point about how could he not know what was going on at the "news of the world," quite frankly, rupert murdoch 20 years ago, 30 years ago, those english papers were his babies, he'd broken the print unions to basically create that empire. then he did call those -- newspaper editors all the time. but news corp. has evolved. it's become a much larger, much more global company. those newspapers create a fraction of its wealth. now i think it's quite legitimate when he says he delegated and, yes, there were prob
that's what's going on with james murdoch. as a ceo of this division, it's his job to know and he's had several years, as john points out, to know. the fact that he didn't suggests he's either dumb or he's incompetent. >> vicky ward, you know the murdoch family. what toll is this taking on rupert? >> i think it's taking an enormous toll. it would be very surprising if it wasn't, howie. i would like to address a few things that have come out. unless you actually have worked for the...
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>> it's dreadfully serious for rupert murdoch, his family and his company. the company itself i don't think is in jeopardy. it's the second or third largest media company in the world, but murdoch's aura of invincibility is gone. his lieutenants are apples falling from the tree. his argument it was a few rotten apples is discredited. it's really a barrel problem. he has to deal with that, and he knows in coming days, not just in his testimony tomorrow, but in coming days, there will be more apples that will be revealed to have been rotten. he has a lot to answer for. >> i can say from my experience, editing a newspaper for him and this was, five, six years before any of this phone hacking began, but certainly when i worked for him, he wanted his editors toagl of the things would you expect from a tabloid newspaper, but always to operate within the law. and i find it impossible, personally knowing the man, to think he would have known about law breaking on his newspapers, let alone condone it. >> it's not just a question of what you knew, but what you should
>> it's dreadfully serious for rupert murdoch, his family and his company. the company itself i don't think is in jeopardy. it's the second or third largest media company in the world, but murdoch's aura of invincibility is gone. his lieutenants are apples falling from the tree. his argument it was a few rotten apples is discredited. it's really a barrel problem. he has to deal with that, and he knows in coming days, not just in his testimony tomorrow, but in coming days, there will be...
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the murdochs certainly have the ear of britain's prime minister. in 15 months, david cameron has had 26 meetings with murdoch executives. more than twice the number of meetings he's had with any other news organizations. how w werful was rupert murdoch here in britain? >> immensely powerful. the view of every prime minister for the last 30 years s that no one can get elected without the blessing of the patriarch. >> reporter: it is now not clear that either murdoch can survive this crisis. news corporation shares have tumbled. if the company faces criminal charges, it could be forced to unload some of its most lucrative holdings in the u.s., including fox tv. this really is a dynasty on the brink. jeffrey kofman, abc news, london. >>> and coming up, the retirement revolution. one american city drawing boomers faster than any other. mine was earned over the south pacific in 1943. vietnam, 1967. i got mine in iraq, 2003. u.s.a.a. auto insurance is often handed down from generation to generation, because it offers a superior level of protection and be
the murdochs certainly have the ear of britain's prime minister. in 15 months, david cameron has had 26 meetings with murdoch executives. more than twice the number of meetings he's had with any other news organizations. how w werful was rupert murdoch here in britain? >> immensely powerful. the view of every prime minister for the last 30 years s that no one can get elected without the blessing of the patriarch. >> reporter: it is now not clear that either murdoch can survive this...
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murdoch had not arrived on the scene. in the 1990's, all of us were titillated by the transcripts of the talk between prince charles and camilla, including a reference to the -- an amusing one to a feminine hygiene product. at the time, nobody was concerned. it was not obtained by a court order that a judge signed, i can assure you. it was the usual british tabloid method of enticement, bribery, treachery, pay off, which has been going on for a century and a half. suddenly, everyone is scandalized. not because of the means, but the target. it involved a girl being kidnapped and the families of dead soldiers. obviously, a complete outrage. targeting very old practices of a tabloid that ever would have known about for 100 years. >> how you trap a prostitute? you why the place and record the conversations. >> there are scholarly treatises on everybody does it that i have ever heard. the reality is the allegations here, they have bought off police, threaten police, and absolutely used every illicit illegal means, and they hav
murdoch had not arrived on the scene. in the 1990's, all of us were titillated by the transcripts of the talk between prince charles and camilla, including a reference to the -- an amusing one to a feminine hygiene product. at the time, nobody was concerned. it was not obtained by a court order that a judge signed, i can assure you. it was the usual british tabloid method of enticement, bribery, treachery, pay off, which has been going on for a century and a half. suddenly, everyone is...
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in addition to rupert murdoch being in the hot seat, james murdoch will be there and rebekah brooks, former "news of the world" editor and chief sbekive of news international. she of course was arrested sunday and released without charge in connection with the phone hacking and she could be limited in what she has to say because of the ongoing police investigations, nina. >> atika, we've had the death of sean hall, former "news of the world" employee who was also a crucial whistle-blower her and two top coppers in the land departing as a result. it's the questioning very serious now. >> reporter: is getting serious and with the death of sean hohrer, unexplained but not considered suspicious at this time but he was the one who pointed the finger at andy coulson and david cameron, not only did andy coulson will phone hacking, but he actively encouraged the phone hacking. this threatens the murdoch media empire but really also downing street, that prime minister cameron himself is now taking this very seriously. he is coming back early from south africa today to attend a special day of
in addition to rupert murdoch being in the hot seat, james murdoch will be there and rebekah brooks, former "news of the world" editor and chief sbekive of news international. she of course was arrested sunday and released without charge in connection with the phone hacking and she could be limited in what she has to say because of the ongoing police investigations, nina. >> atika, we've had the death of sean hall, former "news of the world" employee who was also a...
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could there be a sunday without a murdoch tabloid? unthinkable, surely. >> despite today's announcement, the fallout from the scandal seems to be far from over. scotland yard say they have identified 4000 possible hacking victims. an inquiry will start into possible wrongdoing by police officers. we have the latest on that part of the case. >> this famous newspaper titles may have been confined to history, but the scrutiny of its methods goes on. britain's most senior policeman has officers investigating whether other officers were bribed by journalists. >> a small group of officers may have engaged in these practices. i will determine to do what we should do, and that is proceed to criminal courts. >> a former employee told the court last year as a witness that he knew nothing about payments from the police or to the police. e-mails have been provided the raise serious questions. >> someone from news international is misleading us. he has to answer a perjury charge, and that is very serious. >> tonight, it is reported that he will be
could there be a sunday without a murdoch tabloid? unthinkable, surely. >> despite today's announcement, the fallout from the scandal seems to be far from over. scotland yard say they have identified 4000 possible hacking victims. an inquiry will start into possible wrongdoing by police officers. we have the latest on that part of the case. >> this famous newspaper titles may have been confined to history, but the scrutiny of its methods goes on. britain's most senior policeman has...
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was rupert murdoch's news corp. guilty of hacking into a competitor's computer system and then stealing all of their sensitive material? don't know. after a few days of testimony in the trial, news corp. settled the case out of court reportedly for about $29 million. shortly after settling, news corp. then bought the company it accused of hacking. little fish meet big fish, chomp. about 12 hours from right now, rupert murdoch and his son james murdoch will be testifying about the phone hacking scandal that's now threatening to take down at least some of the murdoch media empire ahead of what is expected to be must-see tv here on msnbc naturally, news corp. provided a statement to nbc news that reads in part "we reject the notion that the issues at news international are somehow indicative of our culture." this is an isolated incident, this is not we at news corp. do business. one little paper. rest of us don't recognize the paper. it is key to rupert murdoch surviving the scandal. this is a "news of the world" probl
was rupert murdoch's news corp. guilty of hacking into a competitor's computer system and then stealing all of their sensitive material? don't know. after a few days of testimony in the trial, news corp. settled the case out of court reportedly for about $29 million. shortly after settling, news corp. then bought the company it accused of hacking. little fish meet big fish, chomp. about 12 hours from right now, rupert murdoch and his son james murdoch will be testifying about the phone hacking...
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i mean rupert murdoch played or you know show that he was a shell of an owner that he used to be but i will say i will say as a liberal i have never thought that man was stupid he is smart he is a good businessman he runs his companies incredibly well and so just to believe that he didn't or that it was just contained in this one person well that he had no indication that the night was going. she said no we need you know what happened early united assisting us there's there's there's a for advertising company the news corp actually admitted in two thousand and nine in court and into paying off twenty nine million dollars as part of that admission that they had acted with this company's computers and got their customer lists because they were competing with them and this i mean british news corp no no this is u.s. news corp in the united states in new york city it's from two thousand and iraq has a long history on that yes i also begs the question of is this more rampant then just a news or c.n.n. how about them as an e.c. i mean i remember you know a lot of the seriously the m s n b
i mean rupert murdoch played or you know show that he was a shell of an owner that he used to be but i will say i will say as a liberal i have never thought that man was stupid he is smart he is a good businessman he runs his companies incredibly well and so just to believe that he didn't or that it was just contained in this one person well that he had no indication that the night was going. she said no we need you know what happened early united assisting us there's there's there's a for...
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>> well, i mean, there's clearly affinity for newspapers by murdoch. it's less than 10% of the total company. and uk properties are less than 10 cents of share of value. so they are really not that significant. all of the growth has been in newer media cable networks now over 50% of the company's operating income, and there is tremendous growth in satellite assets like star tv in india and sky tire, sky deutscheland, bskyb. it's still relatively underpenetrated, a growth engine and a free cash flow machine. >> the price of news corp crashing the past two weeks, is it now cheap? are the shares now undervalued, given the scale of this crisis? >> yes, news corp has lost over $8 billion of value since the crisis erupted in the last few weeks. and we can account with the decline in bskyb share price, and even just saying they give away the uk newspapers which obviously wouldn't happen. they could sell it or spin it, but that's maybe $2 billion of the whole decline. so $6 billion is more emotional, more worry about the unknowns, but i think at some point whe
>> well, i mean, there's clearly affinity for newspapers by murdoch. it's less than 10% of the total company. and uk properties are less than 10 cents of share of value. so they are really not that significant. all of the growth has been in newer media cable networks now over 50% of the company's operating income, and there is tremendous growth in satellite assets like star tv in india and sky tire, sky deutscheland, bskyb. it's still relatively underpenetrated, a growth engine and a free...
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the murdochs seemed to be walking a line. they're saying they're hands-on executives who run a huge business but they don't know everything that is going on. they didn't know a lot of particulars here. how does that jibe with what's known about the way they formed and run their business? >> well, i think what they were doing was portraying themselves as capable executives and capable managers who nonetheless didn't know some of the operational details that... it doesn't quite jibe with what we know about particularly rupert murdoch, his love of newspapers although the company's future is really in media and entertainment and television. you know, he came up through newspapers that ink runs in his veins. he's known for calling up editors and suggesting new tips or even change in the headlines. when he first acquired the wall street journal he's said to enjoy prowling the news room and being invigorated by it. the idea he had no idea, its is possible. it is as he said, you know, that the news of the world less than 1% of his me
the murdochs seemed to be walking a line. they're saying they're hands-on executives who run a huge business but they don't know everything that is going on. they didn't know a lot of particulars here. how does that jibe with what's known about the way they formed and run their business? >> well, i think what they were doing was portraying themselves as capable executives and capable managers who nonetheless didn't know some of the operational details that... it doesn't quite jibe with...
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murdoch or by rebekah brooks? >> i forget, but i expect it was my son. >> when were you informed about the payments made to gordon taylor and max clifford? >> nope. >> you were not informed? >> nope. >> did you or anyone else at your organization investigate this at the time? >> no. >> is that right? >> i forget the days. i never heard -- i didn't hear that. that is the first i've heard of that. i just don't remember. there's no excuse for breaking the law at any time, sorry. >> a man named vincent "the chin" used to wander around greenwich village. which, in fact, he was. his scheme did not work. vinny "the chin" gigante was convicted on racketeering and conspiracy charges in the 1990s, he ultimately died in prison. is rupert murdoch pulling a vinny "the chin" here? is he going to drop the whole fake limp or is rupert murdoch really that out of his depth, unaware of most things going on around him, unaware even of how much he's using his hands when he talks? meanwhile, rupert murdoch's son, james, only 38 years o
murdoch or by rebekah brooks? >> i forget, but i expect it was my son. >> when were you informed about the payments made to gordon taylor and max clifford? >> nope. >> you were not informed? >> nope. >> did you or anyone else at your organization investigate this at the time? >> no. >> is that right? >> i forget the days. i never heard -- i didn't hear that. that is the first i've heard of that. i just don't remember. there's no excuse for...
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when it came to questions about whether or not murdoch had any idea of the wrongdoing that was going on in news of the world what we heard was a lot of no's do you really want to see you know if they should investigate this it's on. you know. can you explain. i didn't know that. it was. so. now part of murdoch's defense was that he employs fifty three thousand people around the world how could he possibly know what all of them are doing but again for a man who holds a behavior grasp on the british media should know better those are the questions that are being asked as everyone speculates on the future of news corp so how is it going to end for murdoch will the almighty fall from grace or did that already happened yesterday when somebody tried to buy him. oh. so humble day for the old man and the book we also say about the media coverage of these hearings and the scandal overall joining me to discuss this is the founder and president of brave new films robert greenwald robert thank you so much for joining us tonight now before we get into some of these details i want to play a clip o
when it came to questions about whether or not murdoch had any idea of the wrongdoing that was going on in news of the world what we heard was a lot of no's do you really want to see you know if they should investigate this it's on. you know. can you explain. i didn't know that. it was. so. now part of murdoch's defense was that he employs fifty three thousand people around the world how could he possibly know what all of them are doing but again for a man who holds a behavior grasp on the...
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murdoch. i asked you whether this letter which is still lying on the record as evidence given to this committee is not for whatever reason, would you like to withdraw it? >> respectfully, i am not aware of the legal technicalities of withdrawing that or submitting it on the record. i think it is a relevant document in trying to understand how news international was thinking at the time. >> we'll ask you the question -- >> so i would say no, but i can come back after taking counsel and seeing if it's a better idea to do it. >> i want to wind up given the time, but i've got a few more questions. as you've described it, and as collin miler described it to us, the e-mail investigation was carried out by the i.t. department and it was overseen by the director of legal affairs, john chapman, and the human resources director, daniel cloak. is that your understanding? >> pardon me, what was the question? i don't understand. is it my understanding that -- >> the investigation itself. you have described
murdoch. i asked you whether this letter which is still lying on the record as evidence given to this committee is not for whatever reason, would you like to withdraw it? >> respectfully, i am not aware of the legal technicalities of withdrawing that or submitting it on the record. i think it is a relevant document in trying to understand how news international was thinking at the time. >> we'll ask you the question -- >> so i would say no, but i can come back after taking...
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robert m -- rupert murdoch is, if nothing else, decisive. he did exactly the right thing. >> las wrd. see you next week.
robert m -- rupert murdoch is, if nothing else, decisive. he did exactly the right thing. >> las wrd. see you next week.
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rupert murdoch alongside his son james murdoch and the chief executive of news international here in the u.k. will appear before parliamentary select committee at 2:30 u.k. time. you have been watching news on the bbc. thanks for watching. ♪ ♪ >> make sense of international news at bbc.com/news. >> funding was made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman's own foundation. and union bank. >> union bank has put its global financial strength to work for a wide range of companies. what can we do for you? >> "bbc world news" was presented by kcet los presented by kcet los angeles.
rupert murdoch alongside his son james murdoch and the chief executive of news international here in the u.k. will appear before parliamentary select committee at 2:30 u.k. time. you have been watching news on the bbc. thanks for watching. ♪ ♪ >> make sense of international news at bbc.com/news. >> funding was made possible by the freeman foundation of new york, stowe, vermont, and honolulu. newman's own foundation. and union bank. >> union bank has put its global...
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there are people calling for murdoch to be up in front of congress. >> the firestorm engulfing two of britain's top cops and still threatening even the prime minister david cameron. >> head of scotland yard stepped down amid public outrage yesterday. >> stephen: big deal. who cares if the head of scotland yard resigns. why is scotland yard policing england anyway? call me when the head of england yard resigns. that's news. now thankfully, folks, there is a voice of reason out there. boston friend steve doocy who last friday blew the lid back on to this story with some pr guy who may or may not be employed by rupert murdoch. jimmy, pitch me off a deuce. >> what do you make of what this particular hacking scandal with the news of the world. >> the "news of the world" is a hacking scandal t can't be denied but the issue really is why are so many people piling on at this point. >> avenue's got some serious problems in this country right now. we are teetering on default with. what do they do. they talk about this. >> we know it is a hacking scandal. shouldn't we get beyond it and really de
there are people calling for murdoch to be up in front of congress. >> the firestorm engulfing two of britain's top cops and still threatening even the prime minister david cameron. >> head of scotland yard stepped down amid public outrage yesterday. >> stephen: big deal. who cares if the head of scotland yard resigns. why is scotland yard policing england anyway? call me when the head of england yard resigns. that's news. now thankfully, folks, there is a voice of reason out...
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what murdoch and his p.r. firms are trying to do is keep this is narrowest possible to talk about how this is a rogue operation rogue apple a few upwards a few reporters but rupert murdoch is a fox but the sky has fallen on him and he now doesn't have much control a man who has tried to control has bought his way to media empire. as on three continents he does not have as much control as he has had in the past so i do think we could see as you alluded to at the beginning the end of the burdock empire as we know what new leadership new governance however as you know a lot of because you cover the us media murdoch ization is with us the degradation of political debate discourse titillation scandal instead of news that is what i think needs to be investigated and prepared as well as u.s. investigations into whether nine eleven families phones were hacked and also now we're learning that we need to look into the foreign corrupt practices act because you are murdoch is a u.s. citizen having fought hard to become on
what murdoch and his p.r. firms are trying to do is keep this is narrowest possible to talk about how this is a rogue operation rogue apple a few upwards a few reporters but rupert murdoch is a fox but the sky has fallen on him and he now doesn't have much control a man who has tried to control has bought his way to media empire. as on three continents he does not have as much control as he has had in the past so i do think we could see as you alluded to at the beginning the end of the burdock...